Just finished watching this Chinese animated movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobody_(2025_film)
It is really good. Great art, at times actually funny, and a solid story. It takes place as a parallel storyline to Journey to the West with four yaoguai pretending to be the monk Tang Sanzang and his three companions in order to scam some food and possibly immortality. It's got heart. Check it out.
Daoist rejection of grain
The avoidance of "grain" signifies the Daoist rejection of common social practices. According to Kohn, "It is a return to a time in the dawn of humanity when there were as yet no grains; it is also a return to a more primitive and simple way of eating."[54]
Daoist bigu practices created excuses to quit the agricultural-based Chinese society in which grains were necessary for basic food, ancestral sacrifices, and tax payments:
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